xxi, 439 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : 24 cm

Second volume of a history of British Columbia

Companion v. to the authors' British Columbia chronicle, 1778-1846

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-420) and index

1847. Paul Kane paints at Fort Victoria -- Quest for an all British brigade route -- John Tod saves Fort Kamloops from Nicola's war party -- Bishop Demers -- 1848. Fort Yale -- Nighmare journeys of a brigade using the Anderson River route -- Henry Peers discovers the Coqhihalla-Tulameen route -- Fort Hope -- H.M.S. Constance at Esquimalt -- 1849. Vancouver Island granted to the Hudson's Bay Company -- The company attempts to colonize it -- Captain Grant, the first settler -- Scottish coal miners at Fort Rupert -- An Anglican clergyman "full of frills" -- Britgrade route -- Brigade route problem solved -- 1850. Richard Blanshard, first royal governor of Vancouver Island -- The immigrant ship Norman Morison -- Dr. J.S. Helmcken -- Trouble at Fort Rupert -- Douglas' Indian treaties -- Measles decimate the Indians -- 1851. High jinks at Bachelors' Hall -- Captain Cooper, entrepreneur -- The immigrant ship Tory -- Captain Langford and his pretty daughters -- Governor Blanshard resigns and Douglas takes over -- Gold in the Queen Charlottes -- 1852. The Nanaimo coalfields -- American goldseekers in the Queen Charlottes are frustrated by the HBC -- H.M.S. Thetis visits the "gold diggings establishment" -- Haidas capture the Susan Sturges -- Dr. Helmcken's wedding -- 1853. Expedition against the Cowichans and the Nanaimos -- Douglas' tax on grog shops -- The Hon. C.W. Wentworth Fitzwilliam at Fort Victoria -- The Fort Simpson bootlegger -- Northern cruises by H.M.S. Virago -- Festivities at Beacon Hill -- Vancouver Islands first settler takes his final departure -- A bad regime in New Caledonia -- 1854. A "droughty" New Year's Day at Fort Victoria -- Death by drowning for a demagogue -- Douglas plans to take the Alaskan Panhandle from Russia -- The Princess Royal's miners at Nanaimo -- 1855. Douglas orders a census -- Adam Horne comes upon an Indian massacre -- And finds a way across Vancouver Island -- The strange death of Paul Fraser -- 1856. An expedition against the Cowichans -- The first legislative assembly meets at Victoria -- Gold is found on Thompson River -- 1857. Amateur theatricals -- Goldseekers from the United States -- Douglas extends his governorship to the British mainland -- Captain Prevost and Richards -- The San Juan Islands, British or American? -- 1858. British Columbia's wonderful year -- Negroes seek freedom on Vancouver Island -- Americans hunt for gold on the bars of the Fraser River -- Royal Engineers -- British Boundary Commission and the Sumas mosquitoes -- Harrison-Lillooet Trail -- Steamboats on the Fraser -- Reinhart's Okanagan journey -- "The Fraser Canyon War" -- Royal Navy strengthens the governor's hand -- Mr. Nugent, "Special agent of the United States" -- A new crown colony -- Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, its foster father -- Inauguration of British Columbia -- 1859. "Ned McGowan's War" -- Colonel Moody ends the trouble -- Founding of Queenborough alias New Westminster -- Methodist missionaries from Canada -- Early newspapers -- Amor De Cosmos -- Northern Indians descend on Victoria -- Wealth of the Fraser gold bars -- Similkameen and Rock Creek -- Explorations of William Downie -- Judge Begbie on circuit -- Lieut. Mayne and Chief Lolo -- "The Pig War" -- General Harney frustrated -- 1860. The first Anglican Bishop of British Columbia -- Unusual election tactics in Victoria -- Indians evicted from Alberni sawmill site -- Gold discovered in Cariboo -- A boy's adventure on the Hope_Similkameen trail -- "The Rock Creek War" -- Governor Douglas' tour -- a changing population -- Achievements of the Royal Engineers -- Gunboats Forward and Grappler permanently stationed at Esquimalt -- A pioneer geologist -- Indian troubles at Victoria -- "Captain John" slain in Victoria Jail -- 1861. More gold finds in Cariboo -- Fantastic wealth -- Cariboo Wagon Road is begun -- Bella Coola and Bute Inlet routes -- Judge Begbie's "Bowie Knife Address" -- Hazards of steamboat travel on the Fraser -- Indian troubles -- "Battle of Cape Mudge" -The Victoria Rifle Volunteers -- Indian policemen -- Death of Lieut. Robson -- An embezzling Colonial treasurer -- Douglas plans to invade the United States -- 1862. British Columbia's severe winter -- The Cariboo Gold Rush -- The "Overlanders" -- Billy Barker strikes it rich -- Wealth and destitution in the goldfields -- James Thompson's letters home -- Road-building -- Cariboo camels -- The Bentinck Arm Company and the Bute Inlet Company -- Smallpox -- Stikine and "humbug"-Esquimalt becomes a fortified naval base -- The bridgeship Tynemouth -- The Bank of British Columbia -- Begbie vs. Robson -- The three greenhorns pre-empt "The Brickmakers' Claim"-William Duncan founds Metlakatla -- 1863. "Cariboo" Cameron brings out his dead wife -- Her four funerals -- The Gold Escort -- Stagecoaches and roadhouses -- Viscount Milton and Dr. Cheadle come over land from Canada -- Whites murdered on Saturna Island by Lamalchi Indians -- Punitive expedition by the Royal Navy -- Governor Douglas learns of his retirement -- Receives knighthood -- Prize easy embroglio -- Royal engineers and their service in British Columbia -- 1864. Sir James Douglas retires -- Rivalry between Victoria and New Westminster -- Governor Kennedy acquires a Government House -- The convivial Governor Seymour -- The Chilcotin Uprising -- Pursuit of Klatsassin -- Ahousats capture the Kingfisher -- Indian submissiveness and their addresses to Seymour and Kennedy -- The Wild Horse goldfield -- 1865. The last of the "Golden Years" of the Cariboo -- Cariboo Wagon Road completed -- Cariboo Sentinel -- The tragic, ironic death of a son of Simon Fraser -- Britain fails to purchase the Alaska Panhandle -- Admiral Denman favours disposing of British Columbia -- Economic depression in Victoria and New Westminster -- End of the Wild Horse Diggings -- The Big bend gold rush -- Moberly finds Eagle Pass -- The Collins Overland Telegraph -- Christmas Squaw Race at Takla Lake -- 1866. End of the overland telegraph -- Fenians threaten British North America -- S.S. Marten's maiden voyage on Shuswap Lake -- The Big Bend gold rush peters out -- Economic crisis forces union of British Columbia and Vancouver Island -- Murcer on the Cariboo Road -- 1867. Constitution of the enlarged colony of British Columbia -- New Westminster or Victoria for capital? -- Founding of the Dominion of Canada -- The Americans buy Alaska and eye British Columbia -- Colonial Secretary Birch, the Governor's "dry nurse" -- "The Grouse Creek War" -- Continued depression -- Last days of the Harrison-Lillooet route -- "Gassy Jack" comes to Burrard Inlet -- 1868. New Westminster loses a battle and Victoria becomes the capital -- Moves towards confederation with Canada -- "The Victoria Memorial" -- The Yale Convention -- Anti-confederationist strength in Victoria -- Death at the Mystic Spring -- The Barkerville fire -- Indian reserves reduced in size -- Philip Hankin, the new Colonial Secretary -- 1869. The wreck of the John Bright and the subsequent hangings at Hesquiat -- Governor Seymour's northern cruise -- He is killed by a bottle of brandy -- The Granville Despatch -- The Annexationist Petition -- Renewed Fenian threats -- Gold in the Omineca -- 1870. The terms for confederation drafted -- Trutch, Helmcken and Carrall journey to Ottawa -- Agreement on the terms of union -- The Flying Squadron at Esquimalt -- Governor Musgrave takes an American wife -- The Nanaimo coal strike -- An election to ratify the terms of confederation -- 1871. Robert Dunsmuir discovers the Wellington coalfield -- British Columbia and Canada ratify the Terms of Union -- "The glorious twentieth of July" -- Epilogue -- The Hon. H.L. Langevin arrives from Ottawa -- His report on British Columbia -- Some events of 1871-1878 -- David Sallosalton, the amazing Indian boy -- "The Carnarvon Terms" -- Loss of the Pacific -- Lord Dufferin's visit -- Death of Douglas -- March 1878: the centennial of Captain Cook's landing at Nootka

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